We need unsympathetic judges and meaningful jail terms to crackdown on eco-yobs’ attention-seeking stunts
Nail the nitwits
WE have come to expect hot-headed young toffs with fashionable causes to perform attention-seeking stunts like Just Stop Oil’s imbecilic snooker-prevention protest.
But it is sickening to see a civil service union throw in its lot with sociopaths like Edred Whittingham — tycoon’s son, smirking serial lout and online beggar.
We had no idea eco-doom brainwashing had infected even the leaders of the PCS, a supposedly serious organisation representing Government staff.
And how monstrously self-regarding all those toytown revolutionaries sounded yesterday issuing ridiculous “demands” and threatening dark vengeance if our elected Government doesn’t surrender.
More futile snooker tantrums, maybe.
Or the sabotage of other sports beloved of working people so alien to the spoiled trust fund babies of Extinction Rebellion and its offshoots.
Britain is an undisputed world leader in cutting carbon emissions.
Ours have halved in 30 years to a level unseen since 1888.
Tell that to Just Stop Oil and their mouths gape like goldfish.
Same goes if you inform them that Net Zero isn’t remotely possible by their fantasy deadline — as saner eco-experts accept. Or if you tell them their stupidity is provably harming their cause.
Facts and reality are never the strong suits of an apocalypse cult. But, again, why is any union in bed with them?
Rishi Sunak forcefully condemns the anarchy they are cooking up.
It could be prevented too . . . by robust policing, unsympathetic judges and meaningful jail terms. Just don’t bank on all that.
Not while middle-class liberals in our courts see upper-crust yobs as kindly, kindred spirits.
Defy them, PM
THE Government must not be reluctant to defy the European Court of Human Rights over illegal migrants.
We agree with the Tory delegation which confronted Rishi Sunak yesterday. Other ECHR members ignore its rulings. Britain has before.
Why not now, over its effective veto of the Rwanda deterrent?
“Stopping the boats” is the PM’s priority and a huge election issue.
Yet potentially his most potent weapon, the threat of removal to Rwanda, remains a no-go.
If Strasbourg insists on tying Rishi’s hands, he must be prepared to break free.
The idle rich
EACH day it’s harder to see what we get for our exorbitant council tax payments. How do local authorities justify raising them?
One motive is obvious. To pay 721 Town Hall fatcats more than £150,000 a year.
One gets £607,000. That is obscene.
Meanwhile our increasingly pock-marked roads would shame a Third World country. Why aren’t these grasping penpushers filling those potholes?
They’re too busy filling their boots.